Säuglings- und Kinderkrankenhaus Weißensee History

This infants and children's hospital, designed by Carl James Bühring, opened in 1909 within the district of Weißensee, Berlin. It was the first communal children's hospital in what was then the state of Prussia, created to handle the steady increase in births around the city. In 1911, more buildings were constructed and the campus was reportedly akin to a peaceful public park. The hospital was soon hailed as one of the best of its kind, and became home to a training center for doctors and nurses. It had its own cow farm, dairy, and machinery to produce high quality milk for the infants who needed breast milk substitute, and for older children's nutritional needs. The farm closed in 1920, and a new infirmary was added in 1987.

The hospital closed its doors on January 1st 1997, and was eventually sold to a group of investors in 2006. Plans to build an alternative cancer center have been on the block since then, however no progress has been made. The estimated date for the new center to start construction is in 2011.

Photos of Säuglings- und Kinderkrankenhaus Weißensee

Contagious Haven

Photos: 27

Shot: June 2007

Posted: August 2009

About Opacity

This site is dedicated to documenting various abandoned places through both text and photographs; recording their transformations through time before they are demolished. The abundance of abandoned asylums and psychiatric hospitals in the New England area create the bulk of the locations here; these beautiful state funded structures are vast and complex, giving insight to both the humanity and mistreatment towards the mentally ill over the past two centuries.